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at this for quite a while. Plenty of exercise for the
mind and soul.”
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Rummo's account of a very special fishing trip with his two sons, James and John entitled, "The Secret to Fishing," is among the 101 heartwarming stories in this edition of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
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A Dream Fulfilled in Peru's Cordillera Blanca
NEW JERSEY NEWSROOM.COM, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010
Jorge Marin
had always dreamed of returning to his home country of
Peru to help impoverished children living in the
mountains where he had grown up. In June, 2009 that dream
became a reality when he returned with a group of people
from the Madison Avenue Baptist Church in Paterson, NJ.
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Click this link to view photos from the June,
2010 trek
Reconfiguring Our World to Conform with His
THE RECORD, SATURDAY MARCH 27, 2010
"Avatar's" creator and director James Cameron describes himself as "the nerdiest kid in high school." But it was that nerdiness and its attendant curiosity that drove him passionately to be what he has become today sitting atop the world of CG.
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The Forgotten People of Canchirao
SIGNIFICANT LIVING MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 2009
We had walked for days to get here. As we trekked ever
higher along the narrow trail through the pass at 13,000
feet, little did we realize what we would find in the
village that lay in the valley 1,000 feet below us.
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Putting the Gulf Oil Spill in Perspective
By GREGORY J. RUMMO
Perhaps
it was a safer time when all we had to do was shovel
manure from the streets of our towns. Or when it took
months to get a letter in the mail or to travel coast to
coast.
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